REVIEW: ‘Oppenheimer’ an ‘American Prometheus’
Oppenheimer exceeds expectations with 13 Oscars and a powerful message in movie theaters and homes around the world. By Lylah Jakubiak In a crowded movie theater, darkness stretches across the screen. Suddenly, the audience is encapsulated by a rolling, roaring cloud of glowing fire that snakes across the black. The theater falls silent as they […]
Batavia High School welcomes Winterfest 2020
By Kyle Neibch and Allie Perez Batavia High School will welcome “Winterfest,” an activity for students to express themselves in a safe place, this year for the first time. Winterfest is completely different from a homecoming dance. It is not supposed to be a formal dance. They don’t want students to go through the struggle […]
Top 10 NFL teams to take the field
By Kyle Neibch Top 10 NFL teams of all time It’s Super Bowl week! Let’s do a countdown of the top teams to ever be assembled. Hopefully, this article will give background knowledge of the NFL and allow for a comparison of the present-day teams to the teams back then and how different they are […]
Anthony Guido: Artist of The Week
By Irulan Riley The Spectator had the pleasure of interviewing Anthony Guido, our artist of the week. Anthony has made several art pieces and has developed a unique sense of style. Q: What are your pieces about? A: “How people emotionally work together. It’s like human relationships, how we perceive each other and how […]
OPINION: Facial recognition in schools should stop before it begins
By Nelson Rerko It would be pretty hard to imagine what school would be like if the cameras would be able to scan and detect who you were. Students in a Denver school don’t have to imagine, because they already have it. It marks one of the newest plans some schools are taking against school […]
OPINION: BHS should start later
By Jayelin Haines and Irulan Riley According to everettsd.org, lack of sleep can easily affect academic performance, but this is old news to most students. Here at BHS, school starts at 7:35 every day except for Thursday when school starts at 8:25. That being said, we start fairly early, but how does that early starting […]
OPINION: Plastic needs to go
By Ben Budke and Madison Waldschmidt With climate change currently happening, everyone may seem to be asking what is the harm with plastic? Plastic is harmful in many ways, not just it’s composition, but other health-related matters. Plastic is used around food, buildings, and other useful products such as helmets, electronics, and flooring. The use […]
OPINION: Every student should have access to study hall
By Madison Waldschmidt Stress is beginning to take over students’ daily life in and outside of school. An NYU study on stress from high school students found that “nearly half (49%) of all students reported feeling a great deal of stress…Grades, homework, and preparing for college were the greatest sources of stress for both genders.” […]
OPINION: MAP testing is ineffective
By Irulan Riley The topic of standardized testing is always changing, with new methods and tests constantly coming out. It’s no surprise that people are debating about whether standardized testing is effective or not, or if the new methods of testing are good or bad. MAP tests have recently made a comeback at BHS with […]
REVIEW: Raising Cane’s is not better than Chick-fil-a
By Irulan Riley Recently Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers opened in Batavia, giving Chick-fil-a a new competitor. With the new restaurant just across the road from Chick-fil-a, direct competition will be going on between the two restaurants, sparking the debate on whether Raising Cane’s or Chick-fil-a is the better place to eat at. The restaurant has […]
NEWS: ‘Tee Off for Turf’ deemed a success
By Ben Budke On Sun., Jan. 19, Batavia Boosters invited adults to golf at TopGolf to raise money in order to help pay for Batavia high school’s purchase of turf. More than 200 adults and 50 staff members attended the fundraiser at TopGolf. Golfing, food, and soft drinks were included at the event. “We played […]